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(2 URLs) Please let me know what you think! -- Nathan Wells (19 years ago, 27-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all? was Re: LEGO Factory sets
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(...) SNIP (...) I think the grouping together of designs reduced the company's risk of getting left with shelves full of the least popular one. I'm not sure how many of you buy for parts like I do, but if I were just out for sand green bricks and I (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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Hi, With the new upcoming sets of Lego Factory ((URL)) i thought i'd give Lego Digital Designer a try. This is the result. (URL) It works fine i think, especially for microfig building at work ;-) I think i might use it some more. please let me know (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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(...) Hi Marc, Thanks! My wife is a fan of Clikits, and we've found several interesting pieces. I used (URL) one> as an (URL) inner tube> for pool-goers, and my wife used it to help (URL) connect a fountain> to the baseplate. As for the Octan (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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(...) Doug, that thing rocks! All of the detail! The very picture of what Micro should be! Make sure you shoot an email to Janey Cook so that she can reserve space for you. I can't wait til I can see this thing in person! -Lenny (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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(...) snip (although, typo...it's Anomaly24.) (...) Hi Bruce! It's me. Pretty funny you are the one to point out my gallery, as I was inspired to exit my Dark Age and rejoin the world of Lego after a friend forwarded a link to your Lord of the Rings (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: SKUs (was: Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all?)
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(...) I, for one, like some TLC's non-brick offerings. This one sticks out in my mind: (URL) (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | SKUs (was: Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all?)
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(...) Just looking at <shop.lego.com>, I find: 13 keychains 4 pens 4 backpacks 15 books 1 watch and 55 'other' - mostly Bionicle shoes, t-shirts, and costumes Even this listing leaves out tons of other items that can be found in a Brand Retail store (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) snip (...) Nope, I don't know who he is - but he's pretty clever. Check out the (URL) rings> used for a water fountain, or the (URL) logo building>. Sharp! Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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Hey all, I was just wandering around Maj.com, and figured people might have missed this (URL) Futuristic city> by Anamoly24. (5 URLs) Anyone know who this builder is? Bruce (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX) !
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| | Re: LEGO Factory sets
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Ross Crawford wrote: download the building instructions>, including a PDF or the .lxf file. (...) Um, there is. eg (URL) I want to know is why don't any of the sets have those new cool 8x8 road plates that were in the (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) I agree with you Jeff, These parts are VERY small, paying 5 cents per part for parts that are only a fraction of the size of 2x4 bricks seems rather pricey. And then grouping the designs together.... As a town person, I am disappointed that (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) Having a manufacturing background, and having worked a little ops management.. the more SKU's you have, the more associated costs you're going to have (for example--just boxes alone: -more boxes to design and print--adds money to product, (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) It's not a matter of simply adding more numbers to the system. As was pointed out elsewhere, each new product brings added complexity to the system, as well as additional development costs. Designing and printing one box, for example, is (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) I think ones that used fixed burden accounting, yes, but many companies have switched to variable burden, or even Activity Based Costing. I believe the cost that LEGO fears lies elsewhere. FUT trimmed to just lugnet.dear-lego (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) Nice catch, John. You figured out what I saw pretty quickly too. Possibly, LEGO will be able to track the submission of an individual copyrighted model design like Nathan's SoL, but you never know. The cat's out of the bag, so we'll have to (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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(...) I work for a publisher here in NYC and one of the requirments from our Editor in Chief is 'keeping the sku count low' (number of different books we produce, not quantities of each title that we print). I'm not 100% sure this is the reasoning (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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. (...) How much does it cost to have some more numbers?! Tim (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) OK, so 2 + 2 will give us 5... We have access to the .lxf files, we have access to the means of ordering the sets individually. Basically, what we'll need to do is rip out the individual models we would like and then order them as a single (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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(...) I'm 80% sure (guesswise) that the reason is "we don't have enough SKUs"... This seems to me a sign of internal breakage, LEGO needs to fix their systems so they can have more SKUs without it costing them a lot more. (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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